Deck 4: Theorizing Separation and Intimate Partner Homicide

Question 1

The family as a stateless location and male batterers who are conceived of as their own gravediggers constitute the
Domestic context for intimate partner:

A)femicide-suicide as extended suicide
B)femicide as self-defense
C)homicide as self-defense
D)suicide as conflict resolution

Answer 1

suicide as conflict resolution

Question 2

According to Wallace, the ratio of femicides to homicides is 1:1 among African American women because of:

A)the high female-to-male sex ratio
B)their greater assertiveness and independence
C)female sexual proprietariness
D)extended family residence

Answer 2

their greater assertiveness and independence

Question 3

According to Wilson & Daly, the context for intimate partner homicide in self-defense is:

A)conflict
B)intoxicated partners
C)jealousy
D)patriarchy

Answer 3

conflict

Question 4

Lofland calls the period during the course of an interaction when one or both partners are so high on drugs or
Otherwise intoxicated that they are unaware of the consequences of their actions:

A)encompassing
B)encapsulation
C)entrapment
D)entanglement

Question 5

According to Agnew, conformity with cultural norms preventing the expression of anger and the subordinate position
Of women contributes toward the creation of females with:

A)over-controlled personalities
B)under-controlled personalities
C)fate-controlled personalities
D)behavior-controlled personalities

Question 6

According to Jensen, greater economic and educational equality for women are associated with decreases in intimate partner:

A)homicide
B)femicide
C)femicide-suicide
D)suicide

Question 7

Jensen states that conflicts over gender inequality are one of the most common motives for intimate partner:

A)suicide
B)femicide-suicide
C)homicide
D)femicide

Question 8

Wilbanks reports findings indicating that wives were far more likely than husbands to kill during:

A)the wife's pregnancy
B)family vacations
C)a domestic argument
D)visits by in-laws

Question 9

Dutton's review of findings from a number of studies led him to conclude that not all intimate partner homicides are motivated by:

A)self-defense
B)attempts to control
C)financial gain
D)divorce

Question 10

Dee found that homicides by wives following the implementation of a new divorce law were:

A)perpetrated in self-defense
B)economically motivated
C)motivated by jealousy
D)motivated by humiliation

Question 11

When white females such as Ruth Steinhagen kill or attempt to kill men they want to possess, they appear to be motivated by:

A)sexual proprietariness
B)financial gain
C)personality factors
D)loneliness

Question 12

For Wilson & Daly, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and intimate partner homicide is:

A)self-defense/miscalculation
B)over-controlled personality
C)inequality
D)encapsulation

Question 13

For female personality theorists, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and intimate
Partner homicide is:

A)homicide ideation
B)fear of a violent death
C)inequality
D)over-controlled personality

Question 14

For femicide adaption theorists, the causal mechanism underlying the association between separation and intimate
Partner homicide is:

A)inequality
B)femicide ideation
C)encapsulation
D)self-defense